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Larry Charles
Review by Adam Balz
Posted on 18 December 2012
Source DVD
Categories Rock Follies II
Bob Dylan.
Just let the name sit there, alone — a paragraph on its own, no abject punctuation beyond a simple, commonplace period marking the end of a sentence. That little period signifies something unremarkable, not deserving of anything other than our passing attention, while simultaneously pronouncing the finality of a thought that should need more to exist but doesn't. "Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan," the period says, "nothing more," and yet there is everything more. When you think of Bob Dylan, the first thought that comes to mind hides two more equally powerful thoughts behind it, and four more behind them, expanding exponentially like a Borgesian biography with a beginning and end that both seem impossibly distant and, like folklore, open to questions of plausibility.
When you see the name Bob Dylan, what do you think of? The music? Sure, but that simple notion - Bob Dylan equals music - forces me to ask you what music. The man's dipped his toe in so many styles and genres that it's become a wizened little digit forever soaked and pale. Go ahead, talk about the monumentalness of Highway 61 Revisited, or pick apart Blonde on Blonde for that one song, you don't remember its name, something about women and rain and numbers, the one that starts with drums and talks about everyone getting stoned. No one will blame you. Or talk about the bootlegs while throwing around words like "fantastic" and "transcendent" to describe the man's voice. No one will blame you for that, either. But don't use "legend," because everyone understands that certain words — like "legend" and "genius" and "masterpiece" — are meaningless today, they've been used so often, and using them now, even when they might be appropriate, only hurts us all in the end. After all, those are words meant for critics and obituaries only, and if you're alive long enough to be called a "living legend," you know the awkward weight of that first word and how it poisons the second, like an incongruity that will cure itself if you give it enough time. And if you're one of those young people who doesn't know the man's music but knows enough about the man to understand the power of tossing his name haphazardly into conversation, go ahead and pick something obscure, pretending to know and appreciate something about the man the rest of us have clearly overlooked. You won't even be blamed for that. And there's a pretty good chance that obscure little tune you've picked is probably pretty good, anyway.
Or maybe the name Bob Dylan makes you think of the 60s and the man's symbolic nature, how he got what no one else got, even though today there's very little understanding of what anyone was supposed to get anyway. "Oh, but he did," you'll say, and maybe he really, truly did. Or maybe he was just a guy with a guitar and a decent voice who could write really good poetry — right place, right time, receptive audience. And all those odd moments we remember now — the electric guitar, the "Judas," the bizarre interviews, the existential doublespeak and confounding behavior — maybe that was just how he coped. The world was drawn in en masse because of his words, and so he used the same words to push them away, to keep himself from becoming the very thing he didn't want to be: the unwilling spokesman of an entire generation. Maybe, when you saw I'm Not There, the movie Todd Haynes made about him a few years ago, you hated the fact that he was played by six different people — a Welshman, an Englishman, an Australian, a woman, an African-American boy, and Richard Gere — even though the only way you truly understand someone like Bob Dylan is by understanding that he's not one man but many. Yes, you want him to be singular, but the singular is easy. No one is singular, especially someone who's seen and done and been as much as Dylan has.
Maybe Bob Dylan makes you think of the motorcycle accident — Don McLean's sideline jester in a cast — and the albums that followed, filled with Biblical inspiration and country-western crooning, all of which were so different from what he'd done but were just as good. Think of him singing with Johnny Cash and marvel to yourself at how he sounds like a singer and not the gravel-voiced countercultural hero, or try to understand how a song sprung from Isaiah could become a Hendrix anthem. Maybe you think of "Hurricane," an eight-minute song-story about a man unjustly sent to prison because of the color of his skin, or Dylan winning an Original Song Oscar for a movie about a writer whose work consumes his life, or his Christmas album — so hokey and far from Dylan's own skills. Think about how all of this turned away his fans one thousand times over, how the critics scratched their heads and dismissed him as a has-been and a washed-up hippie eccentric and a sell-out, only to come back like amnesiacs the next time around and fall at his feet all over again. He was Saint Dylan to their melancholy hearts yearning for one thousand different colors of spirituality. Now think of how little Dylan must have cared, because everything Dylan did was nothing more than what Dylan wanted to do, so Dylan did it.
Or maybe, just maybe, Dylan doesn't make you think of music at all. He wrote an autobiography — on his own, no apparent ghostwriter — so well received it got nominated for a National Book Award, even though it all but ignored those moments of heightened fame that most memoirs build themselves around. Think of his special Pulitzer Prize, his constant nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature, (he'll never win, we know, but we want him to desperately and for no clear reason) his Presidential Medal of Freedom. Do you think of the five-hour movie he directed and co-wrote (with Sam Shepard) and starred in, Renaldo and Clara? Probably not, because almost no one has. (Who else was in that, you ask? Joan Baez, Harry Dean Stanton, T-Bone Burnett, Allen Ginsburg, and a few other musicians playing versions of themselves. "Well, why isn't this thing available?" you ask. Do you honestly expect an answer to that?) How about the Sam Peckinpah movie, the one for which he wrote and sang "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," one of the best songs ever written? Or Hearts of Fire, a terrible film from the 80s that was directed by Richard Marquand — he did Return of the Jedi — and written by Joe Eszterhas, who's as far a writer from Bob Dylan as you could possibly get? The changes are good that two out of those three are foreign to you.
Speaking of movies, have you seen Dylan in Masked and Anonymous? I'm guessing not. Which is strange, because it's probably the best way to learn about Bob Dylan and how he thinks about himself, his legacy, and the world he lives in now. Don't believe me?
Imagine you're Bob Dylan, and you're working with Larry Charles on a film — your first real motion picture experience in years. (The last time you were in a film as someone other than yourself, you were a chauffeur named Alfred. Nobody saw the film.) Charles, best known for Seinfeld (and, later, Borat), is a very successful writer and producer, but he's never officially directed anything before, and you have a secret: you're not a very good actor. Were the director of this film someone comfortable with inexperienced actors, or even someone used to musicians who are looking to become actors — a Curtis Hanson or a John Landis, for example — your lack of acting skills wouldn't be a problem. But Charles isn't that kind of director, and in fact, his experience in TV and film is primarily comedic. So, as the writer of the film who will also be the star, you decide to solve this problem by limiting the number of lines you have. But in film, that isn't unusual, really. Besides, you're Bob Dylan, and every word you say carries an added significance anyway, so why ruin the advantage you already have? And since people expect a lot out of you as is, you can't spend the entire film engaged in petty, nonsensical dialogue, so you write yourself some incredibly deep and aphoristic dialogue which your character, who you've named, interestingly enough, Jack Fate, will deliver dispassionately and to no one in particular, the entire cache eventually becoming so vacant and clichéd that you could interchange his lines at random and still not lose a step.
But the movie just can't be Jack Fate spouting off fortune-cookie lines, so you fill the film with strange, unnecessary subplots and encounters: with a dispirited revolutionary on a bus, with an unstable animal-rights activist, with a mistress in red, with the ghost of a long-dead minstrel performer. (When the film eventually gets made, a process lasting all of two BBC-funded days, A-list actors who will take massive pay cuts just for the chance to share a scene or two with you will fill these roles. You'll chat on the bus with Giovanni Ribisi, in a parking lot with Val Kilmer, on a bed with a scantily clad Angela Bassett, and on a stairwell with Ed Harris, who will be in full blackface. And you'll move through all of these scenes, one after another, like a prop lamp set in place and expected to engage in conversation. Except lamps don't write very good dialogue, and neither do you.)
Even this, though, is not enough to distract from the fact that you're not an actor. Giving yourself few lines and filling the screenplay with oddball supporting characters still leaves you looking bad, so you give your character a sidekick so omnipresent and annoying he's bound to draw the audience's growing frustrations away from you. (In a bit of luck, when the film is made, Luke Wilson will play this sidekick. The casting directors obviously have your best interest at hand.) Your character also needs a villain, and you give him two. The first is an obvious one in a film about an old musician looking for a comeback: a slimy, sweaty, money-grubbing concert promoter named Uncle Sweetheart. As you write the scenes with Uncle Sweetheart — always boozing, always in polyester, always ten seconds from tossing himself off the nearest bridge — you think about all the scummy men you've met who were just like him, who said they were about the movement and the music and the people but were only ever about the money. And so you make Uncle Sweetheart a miserable, unsympathetic man who is your character's total opposite. You're naturally skinny, so he'll be morbidly obese; your character never drinks, and Sweetheart never stops; you won't talk, and he'll talk non-stop, even pointing out at one point why he never stops chattering. (When the film is made, John Goodman will play this man.)
But concert promoters weren't the worst, you remember, so you add another villain: a journalist. And not just any journalist, no, but a slick-haired ex-hippie out for revenge. You think about all the annoying, self-righteous reporters you've had to deal with, the ones who try like hell to pry even a splinter of you out into the public light you so hate and, failing, draw up entire articles based around theories and rumor. And you think about all those flower children, the one who clung to you then with hope, thinking of you as their spokesman and savior even when you didn't want them to and pushed them away any way you could. You think about them still, because they still think about you, so you make this second villain a hybrid of the two: a pushy, washed-up, burned-out reporter named, ironically, Tom Friend. (When the film is made, Jeff Bridges will play him.) These two men — Sweetheart and Friend — are going to get quite the ending for themselves, you decide, and you write the last act with a smile on your face, thinking to yourself, If only… if only… and you wonder how different it could have been.
Soon, you begin to notice how similar all of this is. An America facing revolution and death in the streets? Your screenplay says it's the future, but it looks and feels so much like the past. And the people your character meets are all from some different time and place, boiling in their own cynicism and hatred so thoroughly that the only direction for their lives to go is down. And this Jack Fate character, the one forced to tell everyone he meets that he's not political in the least, that no one should look to him for answers or for hope, that he's just a singer who's given up trying to be anything other than a singer… this Jack Fate is so transparently you that you feel a little exposed writing this, like it's some sort of tell-all in disguise.
But there's an even bigger problem. You've written a film about a dystopian American future where an old folk singer is sprung from prison to headline a benefit concert. The budget for this is going to be scant, which means no special effects…and this is the era of films like The Matrix and Lord of the Rings. This movie, no matter how good, isn't going to attract a very big audience. In fact, most of the people who are going to see this movie are your fans, and you're about to give them a film in which you say very little and are outperformed by pretty much every other actor, including Cheech Marin in a role so inconsequential he doesn't even need to be there. What are you going to do to keep those fans happy? Well, for no reason other than to showcase your own skills, you add a half-dozen little performances by yourself and your back-up band, apropos of nothing. Not only will this give your fans a reason to pay for a ticket and stick around, but also it makes your little movie just a little longer.
The filming takes two days, which is convenient for you, though it's also a bit troubling. You try to remember the last time you saw a two-day movie that was any good, and you realize you haven't. Nobody has. But it happens, this movie, and it makes a half-million dollars in a handful of theaters, which is nice. But the critics don't like it, and neither do many of the people who see it. The few who do — there's a guy from The New Yorker who thinks it's swell — are pretty vague about why, and you begin to wonder if maybe, just maybe, they hated it, too, and are only saying good things because you're in it. You wonder if this film would have done the same had it been written by a regular Hollywood screenwriter, or would the screenplay have been shelved somewhere and forgotten?
You wonder and wonder, until finally you decide you don't like these kinds of questions anymore, and you go back to writing and singing songs instead. Over the next few years, you'll receive more honors, gain more respect, release more albums, and be the subject of more articles and books and movies, all of them wonderfully fawning. The two days you spent making that little film will grow dimmer — memories like these always do, especially in the cluttered study that is the mind of Bob Dylan — until you've thoroughly forgotten the experience. And one day, as you prepare to go on stage to fans that always seem to be there — for you, for your music — you decide that, maybe, you won't do something like that again. And you'll be just fine with that. After all, you're Bob Dylan, and you can do — or not do — whatever the hell you want.
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Apple season is underway and fall is just around the corner. Before apple pies and apple crisps start hitting the table, enjoy a delicious Apple Pie Popsicle! It's a fun twist on favorite dessert! These frozen treats are the perfect way to savor the taste of apple pie while cooling off during these last hot days of summer.
When preparing food for my family, using fresh ingredients is a priority. For this recipe, I used ripe, red apples and DairyPure milk.
With just a few simple ingredients, you can quickly and easily whip up these scrumptious Apple Pie Popsicles. Let me tell you! They smell and taste amazing--just like apple pie! They are a much healthier treat though. Follow the recipe below to enjoy them for yourself!
Apple Pie Popsicles
Prep time: 10 minutes
Freezer time: will vary depending on the popsicle mold
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After having done the EG Civic thing (how many times have I heard that?) Som got hooked on S13s. And that obsession led him to the rare ragtop which is seldom done up considering it is less stiff than its hatch or coupe siblings. But that was fixed up quicktime by adding a 5-point cage that increased rigidity and amped up the safety factor. A Silvia K's front end was grafted on with the trademark Halogen brick headlights. The body itself got fattened up with an A1 Motorsports GPS 4-piece kit that features wide 20mm over fenders to accommodate larger rollers. A Silvia GTR style grill was added along with a Super Made Silvia wing that was last of its kind in the USA. The rear tails received Origin 2-tone lights with the clear/red no amber styling. After the body was prepped it was coated in several layers of Tangerine Orange by Kyle at Item 4 body shop. Then the vinyl was applied by the experts at www.monkeyinadryer.com to show some sponsors love before the final touches were made.
"I had a chance to pick up this one of a kind D-DRUG Tsunami Silvia hood a while back and I did," says Som. "I've held onto it for nearly a year until I decided to use it. The hood is for a Silvia front end, so I would have to do a conversion to my S13 fastback in order to use it... but I didn't like sil-80s at all, so I decided to roll with this sweet ragtop."
The overall style of the car is ramped up by the rare Japanezzie wheels it rolls on. "The choice of wheels was also very important for this project," admits Som. "I needed something big and something with a gangsta lip. It needed to sit with an aggressive stance and have the lip and fender clearance like a JDM VIP car. I stumbled upon some Work Stitch Evolutions and I knew they would be the one. I kept with my theme for orange paint and gold wheels and had them custom painted gold, wrapped in Feddys and ready to go." So a set of Work Stitch Evolutions were sourced out in the largest the body work could accommodate, with ultra wide 18x9-inch +16 offset up front with 225/40R18 Federal SS595 tires stretched over the lip. Around back are some 18x10-inchers cloaked in the same Federal 225/40R18s, just in case you thought the fronts were stretched. The brakes are simple yet effective 11-inch slotted rotors running combo of Hawk HPS and Project Mu brake pads.
To keep the S13 under an organized slide, the coilovers are a set of highly adjustable Stance GR Pro. In the front, Som spec'ed out 8Kg spring rate with a 6Kg around back to really get it sideways. A set of Tanabe sway bars were added front and rear to eliminate roll and a strut bar. Peak Performance inner and outer tie rods were also added to get proper angle. Also onboard is some of Som's own product from his company Drift Line USA, including tension rods and wheel spacers.
Beyond the roll cage, the interior is a blend of function and flash. A pair of Bride Brix II seats are mounted on some sliders and draped with Sparco 4-points harnesses. The console has been done in a color match panel and a custom fleur-de-lis fabric throughout. Some SPW gauges including: boost, water and oil temp are found inside an AutoMeter custom pod.
Under the D-Drug lid is the venerable SR20 4-banger. This turbo motor is basically the small block Chevy of Japan and has been swapped into nearly everything that has rear wheel drive! The once regular S13 redtop engine block now sports CP Pistons and S15 rods, as all mods and installation were done by Driftline / B&A Cylinder Head. His own company Drift Line USA in Richfield, MN performed engine mods including: CP pistons, Cometic headgaskets and stout S15 rods. A fresh Garrett GT28 turbo was fitted to a T-pros tubular manifold. The gases head into a GReddy downpipe into a Buddy Club Spec II 3-inch stainless steel exhaust. On the cool side, compressed air heads into Blitz front and is popped off with an HKS SSQV blow-off valve. To hook up the extra torque is an Exedy Stage 2 clutch with a machined OE flywheel.
"The car is far from complete; I have big plans for it later in 2009," boasts Som. "If I can get the right sponsors on board for the next drift season I will be looking into a VQ35DE swap and a Formula D legal roll cage. As for now I prefer to drive it on the street as much as I can and she's never been on a trailer and has been on the track multiples times." What more can you ask for, some jam, some style and something that can be equally as lethal on the street or track.
Owner: Dennis Som
Location: Richfield, MN
Vehicle: 1994 Nissan 240SX Special Edition
Power: 260whp (est.)
- Drift Line / B&A Cylinder Head build motor
- Port, polish, CP Pistons
- GReddy oil pan
- S15 rods
- Cometic Headgasket
- Garrett GT28 turbo
- T-Pros manifold
- Blitz SUS intake
- Blitz front mount intercooler
- HKS SSQV blow-off valve
- GReddy downpipe
- Buddy Club Spec II exhaust
- Exedy Stage II clutch
- Work Stitch Evolutions wheels; 18x9-inch +16 offset (f), 18x10-inch +12 offset (r)
- Federal SS595 tires 225/40R18 tires
- Hawk HP and Project Mu pads
- Stance GR Pro coilovers (8K/6K)
- Tanabe sway bars
- Peak Performance tie rods
- Drift Line tension rods
- Drift Line wheel spacers.
- D-Drug Tsunami hood
- Silvia K's halogen brick headlight conversion
- GPS body kit / Silvia single vent fenders from A1 Motorsports
- Silvia GTR grill
- Origin 2-tone tails
- Super Made wing
- Item4 performed paint work
- www.monkeyinadryer.com vinyl
- Bride Brix II seats
- Sparco 4-point harnesses
- Color-matched interior panels
- Fleur-de-Lis fabric
- SPW carbon fiber gauges: boost, oil & water temp
- Sparco steering wheel
- GReddy shift know / seat belt pads


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WWE SummerSlam PPV
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: August 18, 2013
Commentators: Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, and JBL
We're live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles as Josh Mathews welcomes us to the SummerSlam Kickoff pre-show. Fans are still filing into the arena as Mathews hypes tonight's card. Mathews is joined by Booker T, Shawn Michaels and Vickie Guerrero. HBK says not much brings him out of his house in Texas but SummerSlam in LA does it.
HBK is most looking forward to Daniel Bryan vs. John Cena. Booker is looking forward to Kane vs. Bray Wyatt the most. Vickie is looking forward to Christian vs. Alberto Del Rio. HBK talks about how Bray has an uphill battle and says we will find out what he's made of. Mathews talks about Rob Van Dam vs. Dean Ambrose for the United States Title and we see how RVD earned the shot. The panelists talk about The Shield and Rob Van Dam returning to WWE.
– We go back to the social media command center with Renee Young. She wants fans to send in their tweets, touts and everything else.
– We get a video for CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar.
– Mathews goes live to Paul Heyman, who is backstage.
– We get a video for CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar.
– Mathews goes live to Paul Heyman, who is backstage. Heyman talks about the match and compares it to David vs. Goliath. Heyman announces the match will now be under no DQ rules and both men have agreed to it.
– We go to Tony Dawson who was interviewing fans from overseas outside of the arena.
– They air a promo for Total Divas.
– The panelists talk about tonight's Brie Bella vs. Natalya match. We get a video for AJ Lee and Big E Langston vs. Kaitlyn and Dolph Ziggler.
– We get another Doritos Jacked promo before going back out to Tony Dawson interviewing fans outside of the arena.
– We go to ringside where Michael Cole, JBL and Jerry Lawler are getting ready. We're just under 30 minutes away as the announcers hype tonight's card.
WWE United States Title Match: Rob Van Dam vs. Dean Ambrose
We go to the ring and out comes WWE United States Champion Dean Ambrose. Out next comes Rob Van Dam as fans are still finding their seats
They lock up and go at it. Ambrose drops RVD first and the fans boo. Ambrose acts cocky and mocks RVD. More boos from the fans. They lock up again and Ambrose takes RVD to the mat. They trade holds and RVD drops Ambrose with a shoulder and then a big kick. RVD does the shoulder point in Ambrose's face and the fans chant along with him. More back and forth. RVD with a big clothesline and another takedown into a headlock.
RVD comes back with more offense and goes to the top for the frogsplash. The Shield music hits and here comes Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns through the crowd. Ambrose rolls out to the floor. Mark Henry's music hits and here he comes to join RVD. Big Show's music hits next and here he comes. We cut to a WWE 2K14 promo.
The match is back on as Show and Henry are outside of the ring as well as Rollins and Reigns. Ambrose with a 2 count. Ambrose with another hold, keeping RVD grounded. RVD gets tossed to the floor. Show and Henry make sure Rollins and Reigns leave RVD alone. Ambrose comes out but RVD counters with a suplex on the floor. RVD drops Ambrose on top of the barrier and goes to the apron. RVD does the shoulder point and hits a big kick from the apron to Ambrose on the barrier. RVD brings Ambrose back in and goes to the top with a senton for a close 2 count. Reigns pulls RVD's leg as he runs the ropes. Ambrose tries to attack from behind but RVD pins him with a unique pin for a 2 count. Ambrose with a big spinebuster for 2. Ambrose with more offense. He goes to the top and comes crashing down but RVD moves. RVD goes for the frogsplash but goes to kick Rollins on the apron instead. Ambrose rolls RVD up from behind for a close 2 count. Ambrose runs into an elbow in the corner. RVD with more offense and Rolling Thunder. RVD nails the frogsplash but Reigns spears him for the DQ.
Winner by DQ: Rob Van Dam
– After the match, Show and Henry hit the ring but The Shield escapes through the crowd.
– The panelists talk about the match. HBK says RVD isn't done and has his eye on the United States Title. Vickie is leaving the panel to go get ready for tonight.
– We go back to Renee Young at the social media command center.
– We see construction crews and members of the Los Angeles Fire Department setting up for the Ring of Fire match. We get a promo for Kane vs. Bray Wyatt.
– We're live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles as SummerSlam host The Miz kicks off the pay-per-view. Summer Rae and Fandango end up coming out to dance on the stage as Miz welcomes us. We go to an opening promo video.
– The announcers welcome us to SummerSlam now. Lilian Garcia introduces Jo Jo from Total Divas. She sings the National Anthem.
Ring of Fire Match: Kane vs. Bray Wyatt
We go to the ring and out first comes Kane for tonight's opener. We see the railing going around the ring apron that flames will soon shoot from. The lights go out, the lantern is lit and out comes The Wyatt Family – Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan.
The lights come on and Kane watches as Bray gets up from his rocking chair. Rowan and Harper look on. Bray enters the ring, the bell rings and the flames start up around the ring. There's also a red lighting from above. They lock up and Kane takes Wyatt to the corner and unloads on him. Kane takes Wyatt from corner to corner and hits a big right hand. Wyatt hits the mat and the flames jump up. Rowan and Harper go towards the ring but the flames go up again and they back off. Wyatt turns it around and works Kane over now.
Kane turns it around and slams Wyatt, making the flames rise again. Kane keeps control and hits a low dropkick. Kane misses in the corner and Wyatt splashes him. Wyatt takes Kane down with a flying shoulder. Wyatt poses and the fans cheer. Wyatt with a kick to the head before mounting Kane with right hands. We see firemen at ringside just in case something happens. Wyatt yells at Kane as he works him over with kicks. Kane grabs him for a chokeslam but Wyatt fights him off. Kane nails a big boot. Kane with a splash in the corner and a clothesline. Kane with a sidewalk slam. Bray turns it around and takes Kane down. Rowan tries to hand Bray a kendo stick but the flames keep rising, keeping him away. A fireman has to extinguish the kendo stick after it catches fire. Kane comes from behind and takes back control. Harper sprays the extinguisher at the flames on the ring but almost gets burned. Kane grabs Bray for a chokeslam and nails it, causing the flames to rise again.
Kane takes his time and drops Wyatt again. Rowan and Harper cover the flames with some kind of cloth and then use steel steps to get in the ring. The Wyatt Family beats Kane down as Bray recovers. Harper nails a big clothesline and Harper follows up with a splash. They help Bray up and he poses with his arms out. Bray taunts Kane as they hold him. Bray kisses Kane on the forehead and nails his finisher, causing the flames to rise. Bray covers for the pin.
Winner: Bray Wyatt
– After the match, the lights come on and Bray poses over Kane. They leave the ring and we go to replays. Bray takes a seat in his rocking chair at ringside. Rowan and Harper have pulled steel steps in front of him. They lay Kane face down on the steps in front of Bray. They grab the other half of the steps and Bray talks trash to Kane before instructing them to drop the steps over his head. Bray lights his lantern, the lights go out and his music hits. Bray leads the way as Rowan and Harper bring an unconscious Kane with them.
– We get a WWE 2K14 promo before going to the panel – Josh Mathews, Shawn Michaels, Booker T and Vickie Guerrero. They talk about the Ring of Fire match.
– The announcers talk about CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar. We see footage from the pre-show where Paul Heyman revealed the No DQ stipulation.
Damien Sandow vs. Cody Rhodes
We go to the ring and out comes Damien Sandow with his Money in the Bank briefcase. Sandow cuts a promo on the way to the ring and says Cody has been his sidekick. Sandow will send Cody back to where he came from, to his family of carnival clowns. Out next comes Cody Rhodes.
Cody is no longer sporting his mustache. They lock up and go at it. Cody with offense in the corner to start. Sandow turns it around and fires back. Cody drops him with a right hand. Cody with a big back drop and a front suplex for a 2 count. Cody ends up on the floor and Sandow rams him back into the apron. Sandow brings it in and works Cody over. Sandow with a suplex for a 2 count. Cody fights back and goes for Cross Rhodes but its countered. Sandow with knees to the face. Sandow with the side Russian leg sweep. He goes for the Elbow of Disdain and nails it for a 2 count.
Sandow with a nice submission but Cody breaks it. Sandow goes right back to work and rubs Cody's face into the mat. Sandow goes to the top but Cody cuts him off. Cody with headbutts. Cody nails a musclebuster and covers for a 2 count. They end up on the apron and Cody hits an elbow to the head. Cody springboards in with a missile dropkick. Sandow ducks a Disaster Kick and drops Cody into the second rope. Sandow with a swinging neckbreaker for a 2 count. Cody with a roll up for 2. Cody nails the Disaster Kick but Sandow kicks out at 2. Sandow moves and Cody runs into the ring post. Sandow with a roll up for 2. More back and forth. Cody nails Cross Rhodes for the win.
Winner: Cody Rhodes
– After the match, Cody celebrates as Sandow crawls to and clutches his briefcase. We go to replays.
– We get a look back at Christian's career.
World Heavyweight Title Match: Christian vs. Alberto Del Rio
We go to the ring and out first comes Christian to a nice reaction. Out next comes World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio.
Lilian Garcia does official ring introductions but Del Rio cuts her off before his. Del Rio insists he be introduced in Spanish and there's a pop from the crowd. They lock up and Del Rio takes it to the corner before backing off. Del Rio with a big right hand as he beats Christian to the mat. Del Rio with a headlock now. Christian fights out but Del Rio drops him with a shoulder. Christian fights out and sends Del Rio out to the floor. Christian charges with a baseball slide but Del Rio moves and runs back in the ring. Christian comes back in and drops Del Rio over the ropes. More back and forth. Christian cuts Del Rio off on the top and climbs up. Del Rio turns it around and runs up with a huge kick to the side of the head. Christian hangs upside down in the corner and Del Rio starts kicking.
They go back to the floor and Del Rio sends Christian shoulder first into the barrier. Del Rio with a 2 count now. Christian fights to his feet but Del Rio takes him back down. Del Rio focuses on the arm and shoulder now. They go back in the ring and Del Rio stomps Christian's shoulder from the second rope. Del Rio with a 2 count. Del Rio with a dropkick to the shoulder. Christian ends up pulling the rope and Del Rio lands out on the floor. Christian leaps out and crashes into Del Rio. They come back in and trade shots. Del Rio drops Christian and stomps on the arm some more. Del Rio takes his time and taunts Christian. He comes off the second rope but Christian gets his boot up. Christian looks for a comeback and nails a right hand. Christian with a missile dropkick from the corner. Christian climbs Del Rio in the counter and nails a bunch of right hands. Del Rio misses an enziguri and Christian nails a crossbody for 2.
More back and forth. Del Rio blocks Killswitch and eventually nails a Backstabber for a close 2 count. Del Rio is frustrated now. Christian pulls him in for a quick roll up and a 2 count. Del Rio nails an enziguri and covers for 2. Christian with a flying elbow. Del Rio blocks Killswitch again and rams Christian into the corner with shoulder thrusts. Del Rio takes Christian to the top. Christian tries to powerbomb Del Rio out of the corner but Del Rio drops him with a punch to the face. Christian ends up nailing a super hurricanrana from the top for a 2 count. Christian goes for a spear but Del Rio dropkicks him in the face for a close 2 count. Del Rio goes for the cross armbreaker but it's blocked. Christian with the big right hand from the floor. He comes back in but Del Rio super kicks him for a 2 count. Fans chant "this is awesome" as Del Rio readies for another kick. Christian ducks and rolls Del Rio up for 2. Christian nails a spear but his shoulder is hurting him. Del Rio applies the cross armbreaker. Christian tries to fight out but Del Rio tightens it and Christian taps out.
Winner: Alberto Del Rio
– After the match, Renee Young interviews Del Rio in the ring and asks if he's proud of his victory. Del Rio says it's a great night because he's still our champion. Del Rio gets a pop when saying he's the one representing Latinos. Del Rio says the Mexican people need someone to look up to, someone to tell them everything will be just fine when they are down. Del Rio says he is that person. He drops the mic and raises the World Heavyweight Title as his music plays.
– The Miz is backstage with Maria Menounos talking about her Axxess match. Fandango and Summer Rae appear and dance. This leads to Maria and Miz dancing away together.
– We get a promo for Total Divas.
Natalya vs. Brie Bella
We go to the ring and out comes Natalya with Cameron and Naomi. Out next comes The Bella Twins with Eva Marie.
Natalya strikes first and they go at it. Lots of back and forth. More trash talking. Natalya goes for the Sharpshooter early on but Brie is pulled to safety. Natalya brings her back in the ring but gets caught coming in. Nikki Bella pulls Natalya face first on the apron. Brie kicks Natalya out to the floor. A chant for JBL starts up in the crowd. Brie brings it back in the ring and hits a pair of leg drops. More back and forth. Natalya goes for the Sharpshooter again and locks it in. Brie breaks out and sends Natalya into the corner. Eva Marie and Nikki get involved, bringing Cameron and Naomi over for a fight. Brie slams Natalya's face into the mat and taunts her.
Natalya overpowers but Brie cuts her off again. Natalya goes on and locks in the Sharpshooter one more time. Brie taps out to end the match.
Winner: Natalya
– We see another backstage segment with Ryback bullying a catering worker. Ryback doesn't like cold soup but it's supposed to be cold. Ryback ends up dumping the soup down in the guy's shirt. Ryback laughs at him and says he's like a three year old. Ryback dumps a whole pot of soup on his head and calls him a moron.
– We get a promo for CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar.
No DQ Match: CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar
We go to the ring and out first comes Brock Lesnar with Paul Heyman. Out next comes CM Punk.
The bell rings and they go at it. Lesnar with shoulder thrusts in the corner. Punk tries to fight but Lesnar starts beating on him. Lesnar tosses Punk from one corner to another and keeps stomping and pounding. Punk fights back but Lesnar catches a kick. Punk charges but Lesnar catches him and rams him back in the corner. Lesnar puts the boot to Punk down in the corner now. Lesnar talks trash and says this is his house. Punk with a kick and a high knee and Lesnar finally goes down. Punk with another high knee to send Lesnar to the floor. Punk nails a suicide dive and both are down on the floor. Fans chant for Punk now.
Punk tries to use the steel steps but Lesnar runs into them and it sends Punk to the floor. Lesnar gets driven face first into the ring post. Punk climbs to the top and leaps out on the floor, taking out Lesnar again. Punk with more offense on the floor. Punk stalks Paul Heyman now, causing him to trip and fall. Lesnar attacks from behind and saves Heyman. Lesnar tosses Punk across the announcers table. Lesnar tosses Punk again and the corner of a TV monitor hits him in the back. Lesnar throws parts of the table on Punk and stomps on it. Lesnar with a big overhead throw on the floor. Lesnar mocks Punk. Lesnar brings it back in the ring. Punk fights back with kicks to the legs. Lesnar drops him with one shot.
Lesnar with a big bearhug now. Punk fights out with elbows but Lesnar cuts him off with a big knee to the gut. Heyman yells at Punk to stay down. Lesnar with more punishment for Punk. Punk tries to fight out of a hold with back elbows and he does. Punk drops Lesnar to one knee and goes to the top. Punk comes flying but Lesnar catches him in mid-air and nails a huge throw. Lesnar scoops Punk and drops his ribs over his knees. Lesnar slams Punk and goes for a pin but Punk keeps kicking out. Punk fights back and starts biting Lesnar's ear it looks like. Punk with more kicks. Punk with forearm shots. Lesnar stumbles around dazed. Punk comes off the top rope with a flying knee and Lesnar goes down.
Punk nails a high knee in the corner. Another high knee. Lesnar blocks the third high knee and scoops Punk for a F5. Punk slides out and nails a roundhouse kick. Punk goes to the top and nails the flying elbow. 2 count for Punk. Punk calls for a GTS. He scoops Lesnar but Lesnar slides out. Punk slides out of a F5 and nails another roundhouse kick to send Lesnar down. Punk struggles to scoop Lesnar for a GTS but gets him up. Lesnar blocks the GTS and turns it into the kimura lock. Lesnar takes the hold to the mat and locks it in. Punk counters it and applies an armbar. Lesnar tries to turn it around but Punk gets him in a triangle. Heyman screams as Lesnar powers up and nails a big powerbomb but Punk still has the triangle applied when they hit the mat. Lesnar struggles not to tap and finally breaks the triangle. Lesnar goes for another powerbomb but Punk hits elbows while up in the air. Lesnar runs and finally hits the big powerbomb.
Lesnar with big suplexes now. He puts a forearm in Punk's face and covers for another 2 count. Lesnar goes outside the ring and grabs a chair. He turns around to Punk flying off the top. Lesnar gets the chair up and they both get hit. Punk grabs the chair and smacks Lesnar in the back a few times. They come back in the ring. Lesnar catches a chairshot and Punk falls down. Lesnar swings the chair but Punk nails a low blow. Punk goes to the top with the chair in hand. Punk hits the flying elbow with the chair under his arm, smacking Lesnar in the face. Lesnar kicks out at 2. Punk gets up and nails chairshots to the back. Heyman gets on the apron and Punk goes for him. Lesnar makes the save and goes for a F5 but Punk has Heyman by his tie. The F5 is broken and Punk nails a GTS but Heyman breaks the pin right before the 3 count. Punk looks crazily at Heyman and goes after him. Punk comes back in but Lesnar goes for a F5. Punk counters in mid-move and hits a DDT for a close 2 count. Punk locks in the Anaconda Vice. Heyman comes in with a chair and Punk breaks the Vice. Punk steps on the chair and looks down at Heyman. Punk grabs Heyman by his face and nails him with a big right hand. Punk locks in the Anaconda Vice on Heyman now. Lesnar comes over with a big chairshot on Punk. Lesnar with another big chairshot. Lesnar scoops Punk for the F5 and nails it on top of the steel chair for the win.
Winner: Brock Lesnar
– After the match, Lesnar checks on Heyman and grabs the steel chair before we get replays. We come back, Lesnar and Heyman are stumbling up the apron while Punk tries to recover in the ring. Punk gets to his feet and the fans cheer for him. Punk's music hits as he goes to the back.
– We see a video from Axxess where a fan took a splash from Mark Henry and won free tickets to tonight's pay-per-view. The fan and his three friends are sitting at ringside for this next match.
Dolph Ziggler and Kaitlyn vs. Big E Langston and AJ Lee
We go to the ring and out first comes Dolph Ziggler and Kaitlyn. WWE Divas Champion AJ Lee is out next followed by Big E Langston. Big E and Dolph start out. Dolph with an early dropkick for a pin attempt. Big E comes back with a belly-to-belly. Big E runs the ropes and nails a splash for a 2 count. Big E with an abdominal stretch and shots to the ribs now. Big E tosses Dolph to the mat and holds him so AJ can slap him in the face. Dolph comes with a dropkick out of nowhere. AJ and Kaitlyn tag in now. Kaitlyn slams AJ back in the corner and clotheslines her. Kaitlyn with a backbreaker. AJ with a spinning kick for a 2 count.
AJ keeps Kaitlyn on the mat now. Kaitlyn fights out but AJ takes her back down with an elbow for a 2 count. AJ with a pair of neckbreakers. AJ skips around and taunts Ziggler now. AJ jumps on Kaitlyn's back with a sleeper. Big E and Dolph come back in. Ziggler with a dropkick and a neckbreaker. Ziggler drops a bunch of elbows now. Ziggler with a 2 count. Big E comes back with a knee to the head and a 2 count as Kaitlyn breaks the pin. AJ comes and kicks Kaitlyn out of the ring. Big E tosses Ziggler into the corner and nails a big spear. Big E misses the second spear and hits the ring post. AJ grabs Dolph's leg. Kaitlyn makes the save and hits a spear on the floor. Big E takes advantage of the distraction and drops Ziggler for a 2 count. Big E goes for the Big Ending but Ziggler slides out. Ziggler hits a Zig Zag for the win.
Winners: Dolph Ziggler and Kaitlyn
– After the match, we get replays. We come back and Ziggler raises Kaitlyn's hand in celebration.
– We go backstage to SummerSlam host The Miz. Fandango and Summer Rae come dancing in again. I believe Miz lays Fandango out.
– We go back to the panelists. HBK predicts Bryan will win. Vickie and Booker also pick Bryan to win. HBK says it has been a phenomenal show and thanks them for the Punk vs. Lesnar match.
– They air one last promo for tonight's main event.
WWE Title Match: Daniel Bryan vs. John Cena
We go to the ring and out first comes tonight's special referee, Triple H. Daniel Bryan is out next to a big pop from the crowd. Out next comes WWE Champion John Cena to a mixed reaction. We get official ring introductions before the bell.
They lock up and Bryan grabs the arm. They trade holds and Cena takes Bryan down with a headlock. They trade holds again before locking back up. They lock up and Cena takes Bryan to the mat with 1 counts. Bryan bridges and Cena keeps him down. More back and forth. Bryan goes for the Yes Lock early on and Cena slides out to the floor. Cena whispers to the ringside doctor about his elbow. Cena comes back in and applies another headlock as some fans boo. Another headlock takedown. They run the ropes and Cena catches Bryan and pins him for 2. They trade more holds and pin attempts here.
Bryan goes for the surfboard submission but Cena fights out. Cena looks to go for an Attitude Adjustment but Bryan grabs the rope and lands on the apron. Cena runs the ropes and sends Bryan flying into the announcers table. Bryan hits hard and fans boo Cena. A "you can't wrestle" chant starts up. Bryan sends Cena into the steel steps. Bryan goes for a suplex off the top of the steel steps but Cena DDT's him on the floor. A "you still suck" chant starts now. They come back in the ring and Cena overpowers Bryan. Cena with more offense and a powerbomb. Cena covers for a 2 count. Cena with another headlock on the mat. Bryan fights up and out with forearm shots. Fans chant yes as Bryan unloads on Cena in the corner. Cena tries to come back but Bryan hits a clothesline off the ropes. Bryan with kicks to the chest while Cena is on his knees now.
Cena with another headlock on the mat. Bryan fights up and out with forearm shots. Fans chant yes as Bryan unloads on Cena in the corner. Cena tries to come back but Bryan hits a clothesline off the ropes. Bryan with kicks to the chest while Cena is on his knees now.
Cena gets out and we get the dueling chants from the crowd. Bryan with another submission that brings Cena back to the mat. Cena powers to his feet and rams Bryan back into the corner. Bryan is still hanging on with the move locked in. Cena breaks it by flipping Bryan back into the corner. Cena goes for an AA and nails it out of nowhere. Bryan kicks out at 2. Cena goes to the top as the fans boo him. Bryan cuts him off and climbs up. Cena shoves him off to the mat. Bryan runs back up and decks Cena but Cena shoves him right back to the mat. Bryan runs up and dropkicks Cena this time. Cena is still sitting on the top. Bryan climbs back up and hits a superplex. Bryan hangs on to the corner and starts powering up. He did that not to absorb the impact of the superplex. Bryan stands up on the top and nails the big headbutt for a 2 count. Cena rolls out to the floor. Bryan runs the ropes for a suicide dive but Cena knocks him out of mid-air with a forearm shot. Cena climbs to the top and nails the big leg drop for another 2 count.
They're back on the top together now. Cena goes for an AA off the second rope but Bryan fights back with elbows to the neck as fans chant yes. Bryan goes for a super hurricanrana but Cena catches him. Cena looks to fall from the ropes and drops Bryan on his head. Cena stumbles with Bryan still upside down in that position. Cena drops and applies the STF. They trade holds on the mat now but break once they get to the ropes. Triple H looks to call for a doctor but Cena waves him off. Bryan with missile dropkicks in the corner. The third one is met with a massive clothesline that turns Bryan upside down. More back and forth now. They trade rights and lefts before colliding in mid-air with forearm shots. They both get up and Cena slaps Bryan, telling him to bring it. Bryan slaps back. Cena slaps back. They trade a ton of slaps to the face. Bryan unloads and Cena backs off. Cena catches Bryan coming off the top and looks to go for an AA but can't get him up right. Cena just slams Bryan to the mat. Bryan comes back and climbs to the top but Cena catches him in mid-air. Cena says it's over but Bryan blocks the AA and drops Cena for a 2 count. Bryan with a huge kick to the head. Bryan nails a flying knee to the face for the win and the WWE Title.
Winner and New WWE Champion: Daniel Bryan
– After the match, Cena and Bryan meet in the middle of the ring. Cena says something and extends his hand to Bryan for a shake. Cena also shakes hands with Triple H. Cena can't believe that Bryan has the WWE Title belt but heads out of the ring. Bryan's music hits and Triple H raises his arm. Confetti starts to fall as Bryan celebrates. Pyro goes off and the "yes" chants continue. Randy Orton's music hits and out he comes.
Orton comes out and stares at Bryan from the floor. Bryan readies for a fight but Orton turns around and walks up the ramp. Bryan starts his celebration up again and Orton stops. Orton turns back around. Triple H nails Bryan with a Pedigree. Orton marches back to the ring and cashes in his briefcase to Triple H.
WWE Title Match: Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan
Triple H has the bell rang. Orton drops down, covers Bryan and wins the WWE Title.
Winner and New WWE Champion: Randy Orton
– After the big win, Orton celebrates to end SummerSlam.
Source: www.ringsidenews.com


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Since winning the presidential election, Donald Trump has reportedly skipped out on the majority of his intelligence briefings; this past Sunday, Trump made headlines after sharing false information blaming his loss of the popular vote on mass voter fraud — a claim previously reported by the conspiracy news site Infowars. It's been widely reported that Trump is an obsessive consumer of cable news — he has himself admitted to receiving at least a portion of his military advice from "the shows." But, pundits and chyrons aside, relatively little is known about where the next president will find the news and commentary that might color his time in office. What exactly is Trump's media diet?
What we know of Trump's relationship to the modern internet suggests the president-elect rarely browses it himself. Trump campaign press secretary Hope Hicks told GQ he relies largely on Google News printouts from staffers and sparingly reads his own email. And a 2007 deposition suggests that Trump doesn't use a computer or carry a smartphone during the daytime hours, and often dictates daytime tweets to his assistants.
To better understand Trump's media consumption, BuzzFeed News turned to the president-elect's largest source of public proclamations and shared news: Twitter. While Trump's media consumption and methods appear opaque and unconventional, the stories he chooses to share with his now 16 million–plus followers offer a unique window into the news and commentary that catch his eye.
All the Sites Trump Has Tweeted: An Interactive Chart
BuzzFeed News reviewed 26,234 of Trump's 34,062 tweets, which we received through the Twitter API and developer Brendan Brown, who has archived Trump's tweets beyond what is accessible via the API (a stream of data that includes information like tweet text, time, and date). We filtered that data down to the 2,687 hyperlinks tweeted by Trump's personal Twitter account since he announced his candidacy in June 2015. By programmatically expanding the shortened links in his tweets we were able to group and count them to generate a rudimentary portrait of the news and opinion he publicizes and, presumably, consumes.
A few things to note before the data: The analyzed tweets were broadcast between June 1, 2015 — the month Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign — and Nov. 17, 2016. The majority of Twitter.com links tweeted by Trump's account were retweets. Sites that were categorized as "media" were broadly defined as organizations that publish content regularly. Campaign-related links include links to President-elect Trump's own website as well as links to sites related to the GOP.
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(You'll find a downloadable spreadsheet of Trump's tweets from June 16, 2015, to Nov. 17, 2016, here.)
Our analysis revealed a media ecosystem that appears to largely reinforce and affirm the views publicly expressed by Trump and his closest advisers. The news stories Trump tweets share several characteristics: 1) They often favor sensationalism over facts and reporting; 2) They frequently echo direct quotes from Trump himself or his closest advisers; and 3) They routinely malign his enemies and vindicate his most controversial opinions.
When it comes to news sources, the stories tweeted by Trump (and the staffers who sometimes manage his Twitter account) suggest that he is unfazed by news of questionable accuracy, likely to rely on hyper-partisan news, and apt to promote mainstream news only when it validates his opinions. While politicians from both sides of the aisle use their Twitter accounts to share content that furthers their agendas, Trump's reliance on sources and stories of questionable accuracy stands out both in frequency and in engagement. The stories shared by Trump's account throughout his campaign suggest the president-elect has constructed a powerful online filter bubble that largely flatters and confirms that which he claims to be true.
Using his tweeted links as a guide, Trump's favorite information source appears to be Twitter itself. Nearly half of the hyperlinks shared by Trump's account during his presidential campaign come from Twitter URLs. Many show Trump retweeting his fans, including — according to Fortune — at least 75 retweets of white supremacists and a false claim about gun violence demographics. Trump's other most frequently tweeted links are to his Facebook page (266 links) and his website (201 links — most referring to statements, event schedules, and voter information).
During campaign season Trump shared more Breitbart links to his more than 15 million followers than any other news organization (in August Breitbart chairman Steve Bannon joined Trump's campaign as CEO and will enter the West Wing in January as Trump's senior White House adviser). While Trump also shares links from mainstream sites — his second most shared site during the time period analyzed was the Washington Post — Trump's preferred content seems to be right-leaning, hyper-partisan sites and opinion blogs including Newsmax (18), the Gateway Pundit (14 links), the Conservative Treehouse (11), the Political Insider (1), Conservative Tribune (1), Infowars (1), newsninja2012.com (5), and westernjournalism.com (1). Trump's Twitter account also shares links from a number of obscure personal blogs, like agent54nsa.blogspot.com, which hosted a joke post about a fake game show about Monica Lewinsky hosted by a character named "Stink Fartinmale."
Trump rarely shares the kind of flagrantly concocted fake news stories promoted by Macedonian teens. Yet the president-elect does seem to have an affinity for factually murky stories bolstered by opinion, circumstantial evidence, and hearsay that appear generally supportive of his most controversial statements. Frequently throughout the presidential campaign Trump tweeted stories that seemed to back up his claims that "thousands" of Muslims cheered from New Jersey rooftops as the World Trade Center towers fell on 9/11, despite no evidence from police or confirmed news reports. Other Trump-tweeted stories include a Breitbart piece with the headline, "Trump 100% Vindicated: CBS Reports 'Swarm' On Rooftops Celebrating 9/11" and a New York Post piece about Orlando Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen allegedly celebrating on 9/11.
These stories prove slippery in their presentation by Trump or in their framing of the facts they claim to report. The Post headline, despite Trump's insistence, does little to bolster his claim — Mateen was a teen in school in Florida and not in New Jersey, where Trump claimed the cheering took place. And while the Breitbart headline suggests "swarms" of cheering Muslims, the video evidence — in the form of a Sept. 16, 2001, local newscast — shows only anecdotal evidence of cheering (framed as such by the newscasters). The reference to a "swarm" overstates the anecdote which notes that a group of eight individuals possibly of Muslim faith were arrested in New Jersey after 9/11.
Like a number of the stories Trump shares via Twitter, strong headlines and flimsy evidence are touted as vindication of a controversial claim, but leave the vigilant reader with the daunting task of proving a negative.
BuzzFeed News' analysis shows that, despite Trump's repeated claims of a deeply biased mainstream media, the president-elect shares news stories from a high number of traditional media outlets. Throughout the course of the campaign, Trump frequently tweeted from mainstream organizations like the Washington Post (26), New York Post (22), The Hill (21), Politico (15), CNN (12), USA Today (10), Bloomberg (7), Forbes (7), CBS News (6), ABC News (5), and NBC News (5) among others. In nearly every instance, the stories shared were news items about polls that favored Trump (many from the primaries) or negative articles about Hillary Clinton — many of them aggregations of WikiLeaks emails.
It's hard not to look at the the frequency and demeanor of Trump's tweeting of mainstream outlets and not see a desire for validation from the nation's biggest traditional newsrooms. When covered positively, Trump's response is effusive — in one response to an article from the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Trump remarks "it is a true person of character that can change his opinion & do what is right."
But such accolades are often supplanted — if not eradicated — at the first sign of adversarial coverage. In July 2015, for example, Trump fired off a tweet praising a "great article" in Politico Magazine by Rich Lowry. Nine months later, Trump's tune had changed. "Wow, @Politico is in total disarray with almost everybody quitting," Trump tweeted. "Good news -- bad, dishonest journalists!"
It's worth noting that BuzzFeed News' analysis of Trump's shared links suggests that when the president-elect does tweet a report from a mainstream publication, it is often to share positive news about himself or a report that supports his positions. Trump, for example, was quick to share a Slate story touting polling data on his own leadership qualities — he shared the story twice in two days — adding an "I agree!" endorsement. But beyond one other nonscientific online poll, Trump did not share any of the more than 4,400 Slate stories containing his name — many of them adversarial in their coverage — published on the site within the past year.
Analysis of the links Trump shares on Twitter charts a media echo chamber that is often literal. Stories shared by the president-elect were frequently sympathetic recaps of his campaign rallies, composed mostly of quotes from Trump himself containing unsupported claims. Of the 2,687 links Trump tweeted since beginning his campaign, the story with the highest number of combined likes and retweets (53,700) comes from LifeZette, a politics site whose editor-in-chief is pro-Trump political commentator Laura Ingraham (and who is reportedly on Trump's short list for White House press secretary). The story's only quotes come from the stump speech in which Trump first pledged to "drain the swamp" in Washington. Similarly, links tweeted by Trump's account highlight praise from those in Trump's inner circle. In one tweet from July, Trump shared a CNBC op-ed suggesting that America "need[s] a tough negotiator like Trump to fix US trade policy," a post authored in part by Trump policy adviser Peter Navarro.
BuzzFeed News' analysis of Trump's media universe shows the president-elect isn't immune from sharing more blatant misinformation. Throughout the campaign Trump's Twitter account shared two separate stories from prntly.com, a site that used to sell business cards and postcards and now calls itself "America's Top News Site." Prntly has been described by the Washington Post as "fake news" and is run by a former ecstasy dealer from Albany. According to the Post, Prntly has allegedly made up its own sources, lifted copy from other sites and pawned it off as "exclusive," and allows users to sign up and write their own news stories without any vetting.
"@DanSaltsman: @realDonaldTrump @Ford @crainsdetroit @detnews @CNBC https://t.co/k2JFVTDDbW Do you think Hillary, Ben or Jeb could do this?
The two Prntly stories Trump has shared — both since removed from the site — include claims that Trump's appeal with Rust Belt voters is higher than any candidate since FDR (no citation or evidence) and that Trump successfully pressured Ford to move a Mexican plant to Ohio (incorrect and disproven by numerous outlets including the Washington Post). Similarly, Trump has shared news articles from hyper-partisan and frequently nonfactual blogs like Powdered Wig Society, which, recently lamented, "WaPo put out a list of fake news sites and Powdered Wig is not included. Dammit! We shall endeavor to try harder." The blog post shared by Trump cites Prntly as its source and refers to Hillary Clinton as "Hitlery" Clinton.
Frequently, stories shared by Trump from hyper-partisan outlets sacrifice facts for convenience of narrative. One Gateway Pundit piece retweeted by Trump this past August alleged that a "Democrat Fire Marshal Turn[ed] THOUSANDS of Trump Supporters Away at Columbus Rally." The tweet helped to stir up a micro-controversy among Trump supporters of unfair bias and toward the Republican candidate. A follow-up article from the Columbus Dispatch corrected the number, reporting only a few hundred were turned away and that convention center officials capped the rally at 1,000 — a number the Trump campaign agreed to beforehand.
Trump's Twitter account is just one part of the president-elect's information diet, but it's an instructive one. With its broad reach comes considerable influence; a BuzzFeed News analysis found that Trump's average news tweet receives about 10,265 engagements (a combination of retweets and favorites) with a median engagement of 4,729, while his top news tweets garnered well above 53,000 total engagements.
Throughout the campaign, Trump's engagement from his account outperformed Hillary Clinton's substantially. In the three months leading up the election day (Aug. 9 to Nov. 8), Clinton's account tweeted 2,449 times with an average of 3,964 retweets; Trump tweeted 587 times with an average of 10,863 retweets. And many of Trump's biggest non-news tweets pulled in hundreds of thousands of total engagements. Thanks to Trump's facility with Twitter and his uncanny ability to use it to simultaneously bypass and program traditional media, the account has been a uniquely powerful megaphone for his candidacy — and an unconventional preface for his presidency to come.
This story was amended to remove the Daily Caller's inclusion in a list of "hyper-partisan sites and opinion blogs."


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Sometimes we wonder where the gems in our ponds come from. Our koi have already seen a lot of life before they end up swimming at our dealers.
At the end of the year (October/November) our breeders drain their natural ponds for several days and while they do this they insert large pond nets to make the koi swim closer together. Finally when the water quantities are very low they begin to put the koi in containers which float on the water and are filled with pond water. Some breeders also use inflatable dinghies or large inflatable tubs. From the pond the animals are put onto several vehicles, which have large tanks filled with oxygen enriched water. It often takes several hours for the fish to arrive at the farm.
The first thing that happens when the fish reach the farm is a careful check to see how successful the "harvest" has been. This is the first chance the breeders get to look at their treasures. An experienced eye can say a lot about the fish at this point. The selection is left to the boss and farm owner, who might very occasionally consult a close friend. At this point the fish are treated for any injuries that may have occurred and are separated. Reliable breeders also carry out KHV tests using swab samples of gill tissue. This first test result will be noted in the shipping document. Then the breeders classify their fish into grades but also into potential champions. When the buyer has chosen his various fish, the fish are prepared for the next step of their journey, perhaps to Germany.


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What is the Grid-Integrated Vehicle (GIV)?
The flow of power in and out of an electric-drive vehicle can be valuable to the electric grid, but only if it is provided precisely when needed. The University of Delaware has developed a set of interacting technologies, policies, and market strategies to achieve this value, while meeting driving requirements of vehicle owners.
What is V2G?
Electric-drive vehicles, whether powered by batteries, fuel cells, or gasoline hybrids, have within them the energy source and power electronics capable of producing the 60 Hz AC electricity that powers our homes and offices. When connections are added to allow this electricity to flow from cars to power lines, we call it "vehicle to grid" power, or V2G. Cars pack a lot of power. One properly designed electric-drive vehicle can put out over 10kW, the average draw of 10 houses. The key to realizing economic value from V2G are grid-integrated vehicle controls to dispatch according to power system needs.


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Occupancy | Cost |
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Two or more shared occupancy | Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 9,000 per month |
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Occupancy | Cost |
Single | Rs. 12,500 to Rs. 17,000 per month |
Two or more shared occupancy | Rs. 2,500 to Rs. 4,500 per month |